Alan Pardew: "I thought the contact was minimal and certainly the only contact that did take place was on the edge of the box.
"But it got given and we have to accept that, it was just our reaction to that goal which was the disappointing factor today for us.
"We could not have been in a better place at half-time in terms of how we controlled the game.
"We got the goal, perhaps should have had two by then, but the Premier League is such that you can't switch off.
"I thought the first goal for them changed the course of the game.
"Whether we felt any injustice for the penalty or an injustice that they happened to be level with us, I don't know.
"We kind of just switched off in that period and it cost us three more goals and then we were in trouble."